Paul Tyler
Consultant and moderator at Digital Kids Today 2022
Once again, Paul Tyler will guide us through the day, ask the questions we are all eager to find answers to, and make us feel comfortable and entertained. Paul is an experienced moderator and creative analyst with 25 years of production and development experience across cultural, public, and corporate sectors.
Paul Tyler is a story consultant. In 2006 he set-up Handling Ideas to provide online and in-person story consultancy for writers, directors and producers around the world. His unique method for handling stories draws out the relationship between story theme and audience.
Stine Liv Johansen
Associate Professor, Ph.D., at Centre for Children’s Literature and Media at Aarhus University. She is head of the Danish Media Council for Children and Young People.
Young children are and always have been media users. In a changing media landscape the need for reflections on the content, they are offered, and the platforms, they use, are increasingly important.
Drawing on a solid, Danish tradition of production of high quality content for children, the discussion about children’s rights in a digital world must continue.
Thomas Otto Grüner
Senior Product Lead at LEGO
Global lead on E2E LEGO app development within a certain audience segment. Strategy, Business, Development and Learning Through Play as a Service.
Thomas Otto Grüner has worked with a multitude of internal and external partners and stakeholders he has the responsibility to balance all types of opportunities and trade-offs.
At Digital Kids Today 2022, Thomas Otto Grüner will be talking about age-appropriate content and design - creating and testing for toddlers and preschoolers from a LEGO brand and company perspective. Furthermore, he will discuss the LEGO DUPLO World considerations.
Emmet O’Neill
CEO at StoryToys
StoryToys has produced apps with many leading children’s brands including The LEGO Group, Disney, Pixar, Marvel Entertainment, Penguin Books, Warner Bros/DC Comics, Sesame Workshop, Dick Bruna, Hasbro, and Nickelodeon.
Emmet O’Neill has a career in digital product design that spans over 20 years. He has worked across a broad spectrum of industries including publishing, advertising, and film/TV. He specializes in leading highly creative teams and content-oriented businesses.
At Digital Kids Today 2022, Emmet O’Neill will talk about the journey of creating the LEGO DUPLO World app focusing on the development process and how StoryToys put children at the very heart of the experience.
Dylan Yamada-Rice
Senior Research Manager for Dubit and Senior Lecturer in Immersive Storytelling in the School of Digital Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University
Dylan Yamada-Rice is an artist and researcher specializing in storytelling and play - focusing on digital storytelling, games and play on a range of platforms such as apps, augmented and virtual reality as well as new content for television, all with an emphasis on media for children.
Dylan Yamada-Rice has experimented with ways of including children in research, using experimental methods to seek their involvement. This has included play, gaming, photography, and making. At Digital Kids Today 2022, Dylan Yamada-Rice will showcase some of the methods she has used in a range of projects.
Jelena Stosic
Strategy Director at Kids Industries
Jelena Stosic leads the Research and Strategy teams at Kids Industries, a full service agency focused on designing and creating solutions that engage children and family audiences. Over the past ten years, Jelene Stosic has been specialising in understanding how kids engage with the world around them, including how they engage with digital products. Her word focuses on bridging the gap between audience needs and commercial product design.
At Digital Kids Today 2022, Jelena Stosic will present an insight-led set of principles - do’s and don’ts - of creating products for preschoolers. Rooted in recent research as well as diverse, project-specific experience and case studies, these principles will highlight the “must haves” for this developmental stage, but also some trends and developing areas such as working with audio products or console gaming.
Pierre-Yves Boulerice
Play Designer at Sago Mini
Sago Mini is an award-winning publisher of preschooler apps and toys worldwide. With over 75 million downloads, three subscription services, 40+ apps, and a line of physical toys Sago Mini brings thoughtful design to life for kids and parents.
As a Play Designer at Sago Mini, Pierre-Yves Boulerice works to create beautifully crafted child led experiences. With an interest in game feel, perspectives and the relationship between disciplines, he looks to bring people and ideas together.
At Digital Kids Today 2022, Pierre-Yves Boulerice will talk about types of play found in Sago Mini apps, as well as sharing some of the lenses that are considered when designing experiences for preschoolers.
Christina Colbeck
Vice President of Gaming at Secret Location
Secret Location develops and publishes apps for beloved preschool brands such as Peppa Pig and PJ Masks from across the Entertainment One and Hasbro family.
Christina has 20 years of experience in digital media, specializing in children’s games and content at the BBC, Nickelodeon, Egmont Publishing, and Entertainment One. Christina is responsible for launching and building the Entertainment One publishing portfolio of Family Brands apps including the World of Peppa Pig subscription app.
At Digital Kids Today 2022, Christina will take us on an adventurous journey through the world of a preschooler’s favorite, Peppa Pig, exploring how the core themes and characteristics of the brand are carried through the development, design, and testing phases of a product to create an authentic digital experience.
Katrine Granholm
Digital Editor at Danish Broadcasting Corporation
Katrine Granholm has a background in advertising and has won several awards. Today she workd as the digital editor for children’s games and apps in DR with a focus on games and apps for children between 1-14 and brand building. She is a part of the team behind Minisjang, DR’s new universe for toddlers.
At Digital Kids Today 2022, Katrine Granholm will be on stage with her colleague Louise Sloth. They will take you through their steps to building their newest children’s brand, Minisjang, and the character, Børste - from the earliest insights to the final cross-platform universe with both TV, music, preschool learning and books. They will talk about their brand values and how they produce both tv and digital play for the youngest audience. At Minisjang they aim to entertain - but always on a foundation of learning. They aim to stimulate - but never overstimulate.
Louise Sloth
Editor at Danish Broadcasting Corporation
Louise Sloth is a journalist and she has for several years worked as host, program planner and editor at DR. Today she works as editor at DR B&U.
At Digital Kids Today 2022, Louise Sloth will be on stage with her colleague Katrine Granholm. They will take you through their steps to building their newest children’s brand, Minisjang, and the character, Børste - from the earliest insights to the final cross-platform universe with both TV, music, preschool learning and books. They will talk about their brand values and how they produce both tv and digital play for the youngest audience. At Minisjang they aim to entertain - but always on a foundation of learning. They aim to stimulate - but never overstimulate.
Jonna Tötterman
Co-Founder and Board Member at Designing for Children’s Rights
Jonna Tötterman is a senior researcher and strategic designer and management consultant. She helps organizations make a positive change and transformations towards human-centric, inclusive and sustainable business. Designing for Children’s Rights is a global non-profit association, supporting the Designing for Children’s Rights Guide that integrates children’s rights in the design, business and development of products and services around the world.
At Digital Kids Today 2022, Jonna Tötterman will talk about inclusive design and the rights of the child, and she will be concrete about Designing for Children’s Rights’ design guide and give a quick view on how to design for children.